Chilapa de Álvarez, informally kent as Chilapa, is a municipality in the Mexican state o Guerrero, approximately 54 kilometres east o state caipital Chilpancingo. It is a vera auld toun, its first offeecial chairter wis issued bi the Aztec govrenment in the 15t century, efter the aurie's conquest bi Moctezuma I in 1458. The Spainyie offeecially designatit the toun as Chilapa de Santa Maria de Asuncion in 1522, in the late 19t century it wis renamit Chilapa de Álvarez in honor o Mexican presesJuan Álvarez. Traces o human occupation in the aurie date tae at least 1200 BC.

Chilapa is notit for its lairge Seturday tianguis, or Aztec mercat. Local culinar specialities o Chilapa are pozole, chalupas, pan de chilapa bread, an hamemade mezcal. The municipal cathedral haes a mechanical figurine o Juan Diego, who appears at a windae in the cathedral spire an drops rose petals ontae the plaza belaw.